Killing Floor 2 Receives New Mode, Maps & Weapons With Free Descent Content Pack

Killing Floor 2 has been one of the more underrated multiplayer shooters that’s currently on the market, with its fantastic gameplay making it one of the most enjoyable horde-based shooters currently available. The developers have been doing a great job supporting it, as well, and today a lot more content is coming to the game free of charge.

The new content is coming by way of the Descent Content Pack, which was shown off in a new trailer that can be seen at the bottom of this post. There is a new mode called Holdout, which has you and your team fending off Zeds in one of ten different rooms that are always delivered in a random order. The map whose name is featured in the content pack was created specifically for this mode, though the other map called Nuked saw its beginnings as a community creation.

The following are the complete patch notes that come with the Descent Content Pack:

New Content

• 2 Weapons
  • Spitfire Revolver(s)
  • Stoner 63A Light Machine Gun
• 2 Maps
  • The Descent (Holdout style map)
  • Nuked
• Variation of the Survival Game Mode
  • Holdout
    • This style of Survival map stitches many rooms together differently each time you play

General Changes

• Fixed VOIP issues caused by recent Steam Client update
• Default votekick setting now requires 66% instead of 50%

Bugs Fixes
General

• Sharpshooter Perk had dual and single revolvers had equivalent damage bonuses applied
• Players can no longer dismember frozen zeds on the low gore setting
• Breaking out of an emote with weapon fire no longer shoots the projectile where the emote camera was facing
• Using emote key during boss intro no longer switches camera view to player
• Holding attack while reloading and then switching weapons no longer will allow players to break 3 combo limit when holding the attack button
• Blocking Husk flamethrower attack no longer causes erratic animation
• Fix for motion blur setting not working
• If Low Gore setting is on, Headshots on headless state zeds will no longer count towards XP objectives and Perk Skills
• Fixed 3P sprint animation issues with Bone Crusher, P90, KRISS, MP5RAS, MP7, M16 M203 (Left shoulder popping on sprint animation and MP5RAS not fixed)
• Fix for trader showing the wrong ammo count when buying a dual weapon
• Reset class ignore flag if a Husk suicide is not ignoring humans
• Players can no longer dismember headless zed corpses on low gore settings
• Fix for separate translucency not working
• Emotes canceled by reloading will now properly play the reload animation
• If a weapon has a laser attachment, it should now properly move during third person animations (and not at the players feet during an emote)
• Fixed Husk fire effect on husk launcher remaining temporarily if players prematurely stopped suicide attack
• Also fixed lingering flame effect on AI husk if it’s killed mid-suicide
• Players sitting in lobby during in progress match will no longer count towards zed count player scaling
• Fixed phantom RPG-7 rocket when players used an unloaded melee bash
• Flex fixes (optimizations for non Flex users):
• Never use per-poly rigid body/static mesh collision on servers
• If we have Flex turned off, use simply rigid body/static mesh collision
• Gunslinger/sharpshooter weapons now grant secondary XP if the weapons are flagged for multiple perks
• XP tally bar will now properly update only currently selected perk
• Hans no longer hates trees – when bumps into destructible objects he will no longer enter into his melee animation
• Fix for HUD holding on to a reference to the old pawn after death, preventing updates from occurring until GC after a quick respawn
• Changed collision settings on portal entries to fix Dosh going through them
• Changed Flex collision from Auto to Off on a few meshes to fix Dosh going through them bug
• Fixed a case where the Support perk would miscalculate ammo count during initial trader session
• Hud will now show ironsights hold when looking to display ironsights toggle (and nothing is bound)
• Boss VO should now properly play the intro VO on spawn (in some spawns it would first trigger a taunt VO)
• Fixed a jittery shake when aiming down sights of the Railgun
• Fixed knife decals appearing as bullet holes in third-person
• Fixed Trader Pods not being set up for grenade collision
• Fixed the bloat not fully damaging the door in some situations
• Fixed clipping on the MP7 1P full and partial reload animations
• Fixed medic dart secondary fire recoil being tied to each medic’s gun primary fire recoil
• Fixed The Booty emote being called the thunder clap after it was equipped
• Fixed zed grab SFX persisting during loading screens when using web admin map travel
• Fleshpound Atk_Lunge_V5 will now damage players
• Fixed extra camera shake playing during trench gun elite partial reload
• Fixed a UV mapping error on the M14 3p pickup model
• Fixed a case where players could stumble parry a Fleshpound’s glowing attack
• Fixed the wrong color border around level 25 swat achievement
• Fixed a case where a Siren killed while still boosted by an elite Alpha’s rally ability would stack damage boost to future Sirens spawned in
• Fixed custom game modes kicking and blocking client from servers until restart
• Fixed Demolitionist : ZED TIME – Mad Bomber : Demolition weapons no longer reload slow during zed time when reload starts before zed time kicks in
• Sprint with MP5 in spectator view no longer causes animation to stutter
• Fixed capitalization error with airborne agent field medic skill

Maps

• Burning Paris
  • Thrown dosh can no longer get stuck inside concrete bollards
  • Adjusted blocking volume around phone booth
  • Fixed Zeds clipping through a door in burning paris
  • Fixed a collision issue for player zeds
• Zed Landing
  • Fixed floating foliage
  • Fixed several cases of tree clipping
• Farm House
  • Fixed collision issues with plywood windows which allowed grenades to pass through
• Evacuation Point
  • Added blocking volume in ceiling to prevent player zeds from jumping through
  • Zeds falling out of ceiling window should no longer have a high chance to get stuck
• Catacombs
  • Zed corpses should no longer clip through ground rubble
• Infernal Realm
  • Fixed an exploit spot
• Hostile Grounds
  • Fixed a collectable that could not be destroyed
• Prison
  • Fixed an exploit spot

Killing Floor 2 is available for PlayStation 4 and PC, and if you’ve never played the game before and want to then an upcoming deal can help you out. The game will be getting a 50% off sale and a free weekend on Steam starting Thursday, March 23rd at 10:00 AM PT, with PS4 players getting a free trial and a 33% sale that is already live. We loved the game when we covered it last year, giving it 4.5/5 stars in our review.